Changing only for her (Sophie and Tristan)

Chapter 5 Tell Me Who She Is

After hanging up on his call, Andy rushed out of the office and cried, “Please wait, Old Mr. Tanner. I’ll take Ms. Sophie Tanner as a student.”

His attitude had taken a one-eighty from before.

Even Josiah had no idea why the principal had suddenly changed his mind.

“Are you sure, Mr. Langston?” Josiah asked.

“That’s right, Old Mr. Tanner. I’ll have her placed in a class right away.” Then, Andy immediately called the high school’s academic head and informed her about Sophie’s immediate enrolment.

Sophie went along with the enrolment, but even she knew things were hardly as simple as they seemed.

The academic head promptly assigned Sophie to the worst-performing class in the school. After receiving her school uniform, Sophie was handed over to the homeroom teacher of Senior Class 8, Derrick Hayes.

Before Josiah left, he said to Derrick, “I’ll have to trouble you to keep an eye on Sophie, Mr. Hayes.”

“It’s no trouble at all, Sir! You should head back. I’ll lead Sophie to her class soon,” came Derrick’s courteous reply.

That was the only answer he could give, seeing as every student at Jipsdale Premier High had a wealthy or influential parent that the teachers could not afford to offend.

Derrick happened to be in charge of the third lesson of the day for Senior Class 8, so he personally escorted Sophie to her new classroom.

When he arrived at the classroom, he announced, “Hi, everyone, we have a new student in our class. She’ll introduce herself. Please give her a warm welcome.”

Sophie walked onto the podium at the front of the room and wrote her full name on the board.

Then, she declared, “Hi, everyone, my name is Sophie Tanner.”

Sophie Tanner? Her new classmates immediately whispered furiously among themselves.

“Isn’t she the Sophie Tanner who was expelled five years ago?”

“I think so! She used to be in my class.”

“I heard she had an abortion around tenth grade. Do you know if it’s true?”

“It was! Back then…”

seat at the end of the classroom, Sophie.

went to the last row and ignored the

Senior Class 8 did not produce spectacular grades. Naturally, most of them came from elite

the farthest thing from cowards. Once Derrick ended his lesson, Queenie Lane sauntered to Sophie and taunted, “It really is you, Sophie!

trap, Queenie,” Sophie cut in abruptly. Queenie had always been a member of Willow’s clique and had had her fair share of

headache after a sleepless night in an unfamiliar house, and she was in no

Sophie at all. She grabbed Sophie’s hand and continued, “We’re not in Horington anymore, Sophie. Did

eyes

an eye, she twisted her hand and grabbed Queenie’s wrist, swiftly

yelped

threat in Sophie’s eyes, and no one dared to step forward to break up the

on, either. Remember this, Queenie. I’m not the same Sophie from five years ago. Not just anyone can trample over my

though coming back had

shoved Queenie roughly, causing the latter to fall

Queenie was dumbstruck.

Sophie was utterly fearsome.

in Jipsdale. We have to

across her

just set foot outside the school gates when she spied Felix waiting

changed his

Sophie decisively got into

single word of the speech he had

brimming in her gaze, Sophie announced, “Tristan Lombard, right? I saved you last

believed Felix and Tristan were complex characters, and she did not wish to be involved

life is worth a fortune.” He merely asked Felix to

of Lombard Group,

words flustered Felix, who wondered, We can have anyone we want in the world. Why must Mr. Tristan insist

Tristan and said drily, “I have poor grades and poor morals. What

rarely stared Tristan straight in the eyes, and he knew in that instant that

skills,” came Tristan’s

eighteen-year-old high school student. What would I know about medicine? I’ve said this many times; I managed to remove the bullet from

insisted, “I’m dead serious, Sophie. Please consider my